Cancer centre

Chesterfield Royal Hospital Foundation Trust required a new building that could combine existing, dated and fragmented cancer services into a purpose-built centre. The design brief was to create a calm, non-clinical environment that would be more than a typical hospital department, maintaining a high quality environment internally and externally. Caption Caption Our first challenge was to produce a brief to integrate the Oncology, Haematology and Palliative Care departments. We worked intensively with all departments to define care pathways, producing a combined timetable to identify an adequate number of key clinical rooms. We then tested the brief against a series of potential positions around the site to identify the best loca... More